Food & Drink

Seattle Distillers Make a Spirited Case for Barrel-Aged Gin

Seattle Distillers Make a Spirited Case for Barrel-Aged Gin

Plus: Five Washington gins to try

BARREL RACES: Captive Spirits founders Holly Robinson and Ben Capdevielle produce Big Gin aged in old bourbon barrels

AJ Rathbun

Angela Stowell Steps Out at ESR and Into New Role at FareStart

Angela Stowell Steps Out at ESR and Into New Role at FareStart

One of Seattle's most powerful women has a new job with a greater focus on community

“Do you help out at the restaurants?” Angela Stowell says she’s gotten this question more than once—it’s the plight of every chef’s partner, professional or private. It’s patronizing at best, but downright laughable in Stowell’s case, who is at least equally responsible for growing Ethan Stowell Restaurants into its current local mega-empire status as her…

Chelsea Lin

Get the Scoop on Seattle's Newest Ice Cream Shops

Get the Scoop on Seattle’s Newest Ice Cream Shops

Five new ice cream shops to try this summer

I SCREAM, YOU SCREAM: Clockwise from top left: Full Tilt’s Blue Moon; Sweet Lo’s lemon bar; Cloud Nine Creamery’s Cookie Monster; Salt & Straw’s matcha green tea; Frankie & Jo’s chocolate date

Chelsea Lin

These Washington Breweries Won Big at U.S. Open Beer Championship

These Washington Breweries Won Big at U.S. Open Beer Championship

Seattle's Reuben's Brews made the overall top 10

Reuben’s award-winning beers: Gose, Robust Porter, and Crikey IPA

Kendall Jones

New Waterfront Seafood Restaurant Opens July 21

New Waterfront Seafood Restaurant Opens July 21

Birch will only be open two days a week—make your reservations now

Chef says whenever he can get this salmon, you’ll see it on the menu: Cape Cleare King Salmon crudo with pea sprouts, morels and radish

Chelsea Lin

5 Farm Dinners to Experience This Summer

5 Farm Dinners to Experience This Summer

Take a seat and pass the produce, please

Raise a glass from your seat in a field

Chelsea Lin

Underneath Amazon's Shadow, Local Retail Is Reinventing Itself in Seattle

Underneath Amazon’s Shadow, Local Retail Is Reinventing Itself in Seattle

Retailers throughout the city are getting creative in their fight for survival—and many are thriving

GETTING EXPERIENCE: The new SoDo Starbucks Reserve store is tapping into a consumer demand for experiences, sometimes called “retail-tainment”

Jen Swanson

See Infinity Mirrors and Neon Arcades at Winston Wachter's 'Summer Dreams'

See Infinity Mirrors and Neon Arcades at Winston Wachter’s ‘Summer Dreams’

A new group exhibit captures the spirit of the season

Neon Saltwater’s “Mindgames Love Arcade” is an immersive staged room installation, with furniture, wallpaper and framed prints (like this one) designed to take the viewer to alternate realms

Gavin Borchert

Must List: ‘Jini Dellaccio: Caught in the Act,’ Georgetown Garden Walk, Seattle Street Food Festival

Must List: ‘Jini Dellaccio: Caught in the Act,’ Georgetown Garden Walk, Seattle Street Food Festival

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MUST SEE Jini Dellaccio: Caught in the Act(Through 7/11) Few artists made more of lucky happenstance than Dellaccio (1917–2014), who took up photography on a whim in California, followed her husband to Tacoma and ended up the preeminent portraitist of Northwest rockers (the Wailers, the Sonics). Into her 70s, she shot musicians performing in concert—locals…

Daria Kroupoderova

The Top 5 Things You Shouldn’t Miss at Proof on Saturday

The Top 5 Things You Shouldn’t Miss at Proof on Saturday

Proof is the largest distillery festival in the Northwest

Enjoy delicious spirits and liqueurs and more at Proof

A.J. Rathbun

Seattle Artists and Tacoma's Homegrown Creatives are Growing a Buzzworthy South Sound Arts Scene

Seattle Artists and Tacoma’s Homegrown Creatives are Growing a Buzzworthy South Sound Arts Scene

The DIY spirit of Seattle’s scrappy little sister—along with its affordability—is creating a notable art scene populated, in part, by displaced Seattle artists

SIGNS POINT TO YES: As part of the city’s public mural project, Tacoma artist Mindy Barker created this astrally affirmational mural near the Hilltop neighborhood

Gwendolyn Elliott

5 Things You Need to Eat and Drink in July 2018

5 Things You Need to Eat and Drink in July 2018

Doughnuts and lobster—because we're all about balance—plus some great fundraisers

These elusive doughnuts may be worth an early-morning Central District run

Chelsea Lin

Two Seattle Breweries Join Pearl Jam's Home Shows Campaign

Two Seattle Breweries Join Pearl Jam’s Home Shows Campaign

Drink beer for a good cause

This story originally ran on Washington Beer Blog. Follow Kendall Jones on Twitter at @beerblog “You can’t be a Seattleite and not feel the gravity of the situation that’s going on in our streets,” says Stone Gossard of Pearl Jam. “The issue of homelessness is everywhere. Seattle is an amazing town, one I’m proud to be from….

Kendall Jones

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